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Pets as Therapy

There is no question that animals offer unconditional love and support, which is what most people desperately need when living out...

Female Senior Citizens and Stroke

cerebellum are affected, then hemi/quadriparesis, hemisensory loss and ataxia, and abnormal eye movements will be noted, along wit...

Senior Citizens and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Week, 2005). The etiology of the condition revolves around the inflammation and swelling of the synovial membrane as it is invade...

Senior Citizen Abuse Screening

well taken, because there is still an attitude in society in general that abuse only occurs among "those" people; i.e., the poor, ...

Independence Loss and Senior Citizens

patients presenting delirium symptoms (Rathier and McElhaney, 2005). These patients may be hyperactive, hypoactive, or present a m...

Pain Management and Nursing Involvement Increases

a long period, have the opportunity to build relationships with them and are able to come to know the individual patients response...

Speech Pathology 3 Scenarios

bloomer from a child with expressive language disorder at an early age. There are, however, many speech pathology assessment ins...

Senior Citizens and Financial Abuse

view According to experts, financial abuse is when someone uses another persons property or assets -- and in the case of t...

Medical Evaluation Steps Regarding Coexisting Conditions and Chest Pain

professional must carefully evaluate this patient using all that is known about each of these conditions. Pain such as that being...

Elderly Patients and Medication for Asthma

medication are adequate, symptoms are controlled and most asthma-related problems are avoided (Francis, 2004). There are two maj...

Aging Society and the Ethical Challenges This Presents

the American population becomes progressively older. This report warns that we are on the threshold of becoming a basically "geria...

65 Year Old Woman Interviewed and Erikson's Eight Stages of Development

Inferiority, 5. Identity verses Role Confusion, 6. Intimacy verses Isolation, 7. Generativity verses Stagnation, and 8. Integr...

Bereavement, Death, and Senior Citizens

life requires a recognition that our bodies give to us both our lives and our deaths, so that social and cultural life can, in the...

Senior Citizen Driving Problems

did play a role in the demise of the innocent bystanders who got in his way during that deadly summer day. Whether age is a fac...

Comparative Analysis of As We Are Now and Tuesdays with Morrie

instead into a nursing home which is understaffed, under-funded and where the staff are disinclined to treat their patients with d...

Chicago Heat Wave in Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

other words, events such as the many deaths as a result of the Chicago heat wave would not occur if society was more aware of the ...

Reduction of Elderly Depression Through Reminiscence Therapy Intervention

chemistry and another in biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the s...

Senior Citizens, Cognition, and Hip Fractures

Roland, 1996). Langjolois, et al (1998) showed that weight loss was a factor in hip fracture in older men and found that lower men...

Senior Citizens and Public Policy

forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a variety o...

Baby and Senior Citizen Similarities and Differences

Yet, birth and death are part of life and in some way they are each nearer to the darkness--the before and after life--that people...

Senior Citizen Mental Patients and Relocation

and that maintaining the most stable possible environment has been found to help alleviate the impact of such behaviours: it might...

Senior Citizens, Young People, and Suicide

to 14. Considering only adolescents 15 to 19, the suicide rate is "was 8.2 deaths per 100,000 teenagers, including five times as ...

Senior Citizens with Chronic Illnesses and Social Deprivation

involved, the elderly can be put aside. Whether living at home or in a skilled nursing facility (SNF), the lives of the elderly w...

Nursing Reflections

biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...

Overview of Environmental Health Care

chemicals throughout our lives and some ill effects do not happen until years later (NIEHS, 2003). Most physicians have limited ...

Cultures and Treatment of the Elderly

is well known that in Asian countries, as well as Asian communities in the United States, the elderly are treated with respect. Ye...

Florida's 113th District Representation

on Health Services ("Rep. Manuel," 2004). While some are semi-related, he has done little in respect to the questions at hand. Gra...

Story About a Senior Citizen Couple and Their Gradual Memory Loss

I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...

HIV and the Senior Citizen Population

In all honesty it seems to be a problem with the poor as well as the middle class, white and black, male and female, straight and ...

Evaluation of Gerontology

be expected to become even more top-heavy in the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the econo...